Pkg xen devel - Mar 2007 - Bug#414040: kernel: xen_net: Memory squeeze in netback driver.

Package: xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-amd64
Version: 3.0.3-0-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

This bug looks to be tracked in upstream:

http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=762

Mailing list discussion here:

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-bugs/2006-11/msg00030.html


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-xen-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-amd64 depends on:
ii  xen-utils-3.0.3-1             3.0.3-0-2  XEN administrative tools

xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-amd64 recommends no packages.

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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Bob Tanner wrote:
> Package: xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-amd64
> Version: 3.0.3-0-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> This bug looks to be tracked in upstream:
>
> http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=762
>
> Mailing list discussion here:
>
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-bugs/2006-11/msg00030.html
IIRC, a workaround is to set a 'dom0_mem' parameter on bootup, so it 
doesn't have to shrink dom0's memory to start the guest domains.

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